Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1956

The Killing (Harris-Kubrick; United Artists) announces the arrival of a
new boy wonder in a business that soon separates the men from the boys.
At 27 Writer-Director Stanley Kubrick, in his third full-length
picture, has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than
Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out
of town on an exhibitors' poll. What's more, Director Kubrick made his
entire movie for a price ($320,000) that would hardly pay for the
lingerie in an Ava Gardner picture, with the result that The Killing
seems likely to...